Lesson plan 2: Making an entry

Aim

To help students to form competition groups and begin developing their competition entry.

Timing

One hour maximum

► 5 minutes

Explain to students that, building on the information in the previous lesson, it is time to decide what they would like their competition entry to be.

► 10 minutes

Ask students to form their competition groups and use what they have learnt about the House of Lords make a list of the:

qualities you think a Member of the House of Lords needs

experience a Member of the House Lords needs

issues you think the House of Lords, and Parliament as a whole, should be dealing with.

► 5 minutes

Ask each group to feedback, making a list of the qualities and experience on the board.

► 10 minutes

Once all groups have fed back ask each group to add qualities/experience they didn’t think of to their list and consider who they would nominate based on their group list: stress that it doesn’t have to be a famous person!

► 5 minutes

Ask each group to feedback who they have selected, justifying their decision.

► 10 minutes

Ask the groups to think about how they will put their case forward: will they make a short film, produce a podcast, write an essay, create a collage or submit a newspaper or magazine article? They will need to decide which format will suit the subject (the person they’re nominating) and their argument.

► 10 minutes

Now they have decided how they want to do it it’s time to decide which jobs need to take place: research, filming, design etc and split them up among the group and come up with a plan of action!